Friends sometimes ask me why I have returned so many times to live in Hong Kong. It’s not the Cantonese food. As I age, it is less and less the…
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RELIGION & METAPHYSICS
I already knew that there are people who die on cruise ships. But when the lady sitting next to me a today’s bible study meeting leaned over and told me…
Religion and war making go all the way back to Gilgamesh, the great priest-warrior-king who expunged his enemies and razed their cities in the same lands and with the same…
He’s the darling of America’s political conservatives and right-wing fundamentalist Christian evangelists. George Bush idolizes him, so does Jerry Falwell. General Boykin says He could kick Mohammad’s ass…
Today we entered colder waters with less wind, but deeper, longer swells out of the east that added a slight roll to the ship’s pitch because our heading is now…
It was a heavenly day. The bright morning sun gave the sea a rich, translucent lapis lazuli blue, flecked with white tops, with a temperature of 24C and a let…
The word “homosexuals” came up only twice in the Bible sessions, once when Sy mentioned it in a list of social concerns, the second time when I brought it up…
I am always amazed at the tendency these days for Evangelicals to go on about Jesus Christ as though he was somebody they knew personally. It’s that “personal savior”…
It’s Day 6 of Mysteries of the Bible at sea and I can feel my frustration building. Donald calls it Bible study, as though it were some sort of real…
[Continued from 36. 10] It’s Day 5 of the Mysteries of the Bible class and Donald lifts his head from the minute of silence that he invokes at the beginning…